Non SEO – Drinking Breast Milk, and Eating Pickled Pork Rinds.
I’ve just spent the last 1/2 hour laughing my butt off….mind if I share? I somehow stumbled upon a blog called "The Sneeze" put out be Steve ? Full of killer funny stuff. Check out this blog category called "Steve, Don’t Eat it!" Here Steve eats: Potted Meat, Pickled pork rinds, Beggin’ Strips, Urlel-O’s from […]
- 02-21-2007
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Link Building and Emails – Humans do it Better.
The biggest secret to getting your emails opened.(underlying…. "how to get links too") Spam Spam Spam – we get the shit every day – and tons of it. I spend hours each day weeding out my email. To the simplest degree, when weeding through spam, the whole secret is finding what appear to be human […]
- 02-21-2007
- Jim Boykin's Blog
What’s your comfort level in shades of gray?
This afternoon I was consulting with a new client and going over our strategies with him. This client is in an ultra-competitive keyword industry and he was showing me how 6 out of the top 10 sites are using a counter program to gather tons of backlinks….shit, these guys have hundreds of .edu’s even using […]
- 02-21-2007
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Non SEO – My kid’s already using the computer.
Nater Tater Boykin My wife was looking all around for Nate (our 3 month old) when she caught him at the computer just like daddy does when he disappears. Were you looking for me Mommy?
- 02-20-2007
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Updated We Build Pages SEO Tools.
I know for a few weeks we hit some bumps with some of our SEO tools, but most should be working pretty smooth now, and several got little updates as well (you’ll have to check them out to see the new changes (too many little edits to list)). The only tool that sometimes gets stopped is […]
- 02-16-2007
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Links as Pennies and Old Ben Franklins.
Links as Pennies and Old Ben Franklins I was just listening to Chuck Price (Sales and Mgmt at WBP) on the phone with a prospective client. At one point he was explaining how it’s not all about the number of links that makes the difference, it’s the quality of those numbers that matters. He used […]
- 02-16-2007
- Jim Boykin's Blog
You Don’t Show Your Sites to Matt.
On my way home from work last night I was listening to Jim Croce’s "You Don’t mess around with Jim" and I started playing with the words, so this morning I spent a few minutes writing my rewording of this song. Now I know Matt’s over in London at SES right now, so here’s a […]
- 02-14-2007
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Sorry, I won’t do SEO for your new website.
A majority of the leads we get at from webuildpages.com are from "new" websites which are seeking higher rankings in Google. I don’t believe that for most new sites that they’ll see their ROI with our services for several years (but if you’ve got an old site you’ll see results from our type of SEO work "fast"). […]
- 02-03-2007
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Ya can’t please all the people all the time.
I guess that’s life. This morning a blogger sent me an email stating: This morning I woke up with this nasty comment on my blog with your name next to it. I deleted it immediatly and added a filter to block the N word in the future. I thought you should know in case it turns […]
- 01-29-2007
- Jim Boykin's Blog
Tonight I sold my Google Stock.
On August 19, 2004 I bought a "handful" of Google Stock at $85 per share. Tonight I put in a Sell order – as I see it’s currently at $495.84 per share. Not bad. Anyone else out there still holding Google stock? Where you see Google Stock valued at in 12 months? Who would you invest in today? […]
- 01-28-2007
- Jim Boykin's Blog
